1963 in Northern Ireland

← 1962 1961 1960 1963 in Northern Ireland → 1964 1965 1966
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	1963 in the United Kingdom 1963 in Ireland Other events of 1963 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 17 January - Prototype Short SC.7 Skyvan short-haul freighter first flies.
• 23 September - British Enkalon synthetic fibre factory opens in Antrim.
• 2 October - Second Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft (XG905), flying from Belfast Harbour Airport, crashes due to a control malfunction, killing the pilot, J. R. Green.^[1]
• 28 October - Belfast Aldergrove opened as the principal airport for Northern Ireland, civilian facilities transferring from Nutts Corner.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Distillery

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner: Brigitte Varangot).

Births

• 10 July - Conor Murphy, Sinn Féin MP and MLA.
• 30 July - Thomas Buchanan, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
• 9 August - Sam Storey, boxer.
• 25 August - Candida Doyle, keyboard player.
• 12 October - Alan McDonald, footballer and football manager.
• 27 October - Johnny Adair, loyalist paramilitary.
• 11 December - Tom Elliott, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
• Richard English, historian.
• David Hilditch - Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, Sinn Féin official (died 2006).

Deaths

• 22 November - C. S. Lewis, novelist and author of The Chronicles of Narnia (born 1898).
• 30 November - Dehra Parker, longest serving woman MP in Northern Ireland and first woman to serve in the Northern Ireland Cabinet.
• December - Andy Kennedy, footballer (born 1897).

References